Improvement in portable wash-stands



M. F. POTTER: Portable wash-stands.

`PaltentedAprl 7,1874.

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UNITED STATES- PATENT OFFICE.

MEEEITTE. POTTER, on KANEVI'LLE, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN PORTABLE WASH-STANDS.

Specilication forming part of Letters Patent No. 149,520, dated April 7,1874; application led November 19, 1873.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, MERRITT F. POTTER, of Kaneville, in the county ofKane and State of Illinois, have invented a Vash-Stand, of which V thefollowing is a specification:

The object of my invention is the formation of a wash-stand of moreeconomical construction and more convenient than those heretofore made.

Figure 1 is a perspective, and Fig. 2 a sectional, drawingof mywash-stand, the same letters referring to like parts.

A is abowl, perforated at the bottom and closed by the valve B. C is ahollowT tube attached to and supporting the bowl, and also acting as adischarge-pipe Jfor conducting the waste-water from the bowl into thevessel D beneath the base E. F is a wire attached at its upper extremityto the valve B and extending downthrough the tubeC and bent upward atits lower extremity and terminating in the loop G outside the tube andabove the base E. H is a cord extending from the bowl downward throughthe loops J J and attached to the loop G. The ring K at the upper endserves for a handle.

To empty the bowl, I pull the oord upward, which raises the valve B, andthe water escapes through the tube C into the vessel beneath.

For use in camp, the base E may be omitted and the tube C may beextended into the earth or inserted into another, which penetrates intothe soil far enough to cause'the absorption oi' all the water dischargedthrough it.

I claiml. A portable'wash-stand, consisting of a wash-bowl, incombination with a single tube which conducts the waste-water from thebowl downward into a receiver beneath, and is also thesupporting-standard of the bowl itself.

2. In combination with the basin A, the valve B, having its stem passingdown thebasin-tube.

and arranged to be operated from without, su bstantially as specied.

llVit-nesses: MERRITT F. POTTER.

RDW. 1V. DOEN, M. GARDNER.

